Everything2 New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed2015-03-31T21:04:13ZIt is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle (opinion)http://everything2.com/user/TheAnglican/writeups/It+is+easier+for+a+camel+to+go+through+the+eye+of+a+needleTheAnglicanhttp://everything2.com/user/TheAnglican2015-03-31T18:12:42Z2015-03-31T18:12:42Z<p>An explanation for this, if one takes it as a mistranslation of "cable" - is to understand that there is indeed a way to pass a rope through the <a href="/title/eye">eye</a> of the <a href="/title/needle">needle</a> - by <em>completely unravelling the rope, and passing each individual <a href="/title/fiber">fiber</a> through the eye, reassembling it on the other side.</em></p>
<p> It's the strongest evidence that Christianity is not a <a href="/title/spectator+sport">spectator sport</a> and that it's supposed to be a transformative experience.</p>Why We Didn't Become Physicists (fiction)http://everything2.com/user/iceowl/writeups/Why+We+Didn%2527t+Become+Physicistsiceowlhttp://everything2.com/user/iceowl2015-03-31T17:47:13Z2015-03-31T17:47:13Z<br><br>
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<strong>Why We Didn't Become Physicists</strong>:<br><br>
First we learned the derivatives and the accelerations. Then the <a href="/title/wave+function">wave function</a> <a href="/title/calculus">calculus</a>. The <a href="/title/eigenvectors">eigenvectors</a> we transformed into themselves because they alone represented what was real and invariant, ever immune to our obsession with measurement. On paper we were taught to capture the exotic ever living particulate earth force with magnets and currents that made <a href="/title/vector+potential">vector potential</a>s: invisible walls. The equations showed the harder we held on the easier the energy escaped, tunneling through us like bullets through cigarette smoke, leaving us with nothing but grainy, indeterminate images like tabloid pictures of aliens and <a href="/title/UFO">UFO</a>s. But were still young and found that enthralling, not hopeless.
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Then we learned that nothing was where it was or how fast it was going. Our reality was subject to an ever imperfect <a href="/title/Fourier+transform">Fourier transform</a> that irked <a href="/title/Heisenberg">Heisenberg</a> and kept him from sleeping until even he had to insist that by&hellip;The Five Tibetan Rites (thing)http://everything2.com/user/TheAnglican/writeups/The+Five+Tibetan+RitesTheAnglicanhttp://everything2.com/user/TheAnglican2015-03-31T17:44:14Z2015-03-31T17:44:14Z<p>As is usual with such things that are on the edges or fringe of experience, the "truthiness" of info about the procedures are questionable, but the rites themselves are well known, well documented and readily available, even if the history or information about whence they came is in question.</p>
<p>The <a href="/title/canon">canon</a>ical story about them is that a British Army Colonel back in the early 1900s encountered the then-untouched and therefore mystical "Orientalist" <a href="/title/Tibet">Tibet</a> and learned there a sequence of movements, a kind of moving <a href="/title/yoga">yoga</a> that supposedly led to his hair regrowing in full and black, his stoop gone permanently until his death, and his required <a href="/title/cane">cane</a> tossed away for good. He performed, documented and publicized these moves out of sheer gratitude.</p>
<p>Naturally, they're available from <a href="/title/Gaiam">Gaiam</a> and have been <a href="/title/New+Age">New Age</a>d, but practical information about their effectiveness is <a href="/title/objective">objective</a>ly unknown.</p>
<p>To perform the rites, you are required to perform each of the five actions a minimum of three&hellip;Zoomcakes (thing)http://everything2.com/user/BookReader/writeups/ZoomcakesBookReaderhttp://everything2.com/user/BookReader2015-03-31T04:55:28Z2015-03-31T04:55:28Z<p> Zoomcakes, noun. Plural: Zoomcakes. Singluar: Zoomcakes.
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<p><b><h1>Nutrition Facts</h1></b></p>
<p><b>Serving Size</b> Unknown
<p> Servings Per Container: Estimated at 6.02214129(27)×10^23
<p>Calories: 6.626 068 96(33)×10^–34 Calories from fat: Not known.
<p> % Daily Value*
<p>Total Fat: 12%
Saturated Fat 3%
Omega-3 2%
Omega-6 2%
Trans Fat 4%
<p>Sodium 34%
<p>Total Carbohydrates 40%
Dietary Fiber 2%
Sugars 20%
<p>Protein 10%
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<p>Vitamin A 0% Vitamin D 200% (after opening package decrease 1% every hour)
<p>Vitamin B 1% Iron 15%
<p>Calcium 1% Deuterium 30%
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<p>Ingredients: Sugar, <a href="/title/Corn+Syrup">Corn Syrup</a>, Enriched Bleached Flour (Wheat <a href="/title/Flour">Flour</a>, Nicotine, Nanoscale Ferromagnetic Particles Suspend in a <a href="/title/Syrup">Syrup</a>, Candida Parapsilosis, Riboflavin&hellip;Free isn't always free (essay)http://everything2.com/user/relentless/writeups/Free+isn%2527t+always+freerelentlesshttp://everything2.com/user/relentless2015-03-31T04:03:05Z2015-03-31T04:03:05Z<p>
I was watching a <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions?language=en">TED Talk</a> delivered by <a href="/title/Dan+Ariely">Dan Ariely</a> where he discussed whether or not we were in control of our own actions. After watching this, I read his book, <em><a href="/title/Predictably+Irrational">Predictably Irrational</a></em>, which went through the ideas in the <a href="/title/TED">TED</a> Talk in more detail. One of the concepts that I found interesting was this idea that "Free" isn't necessarily <a href="/title/free">free</a>. There were two chapters in the book that discussed this. The first was about how everything is relative, even when it shouldn't be - this is an indirect example of the cost of "Free"; the second was about the cost of zero cost - this is a more direct example of the cost of "Free".
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Apparently <a href="/title/everything">everything</a> is relative. By everything, I mean everything that we humans have to make decisions based on. To use the example in the book, the author (Dan) came across an ad for subscriptions to <a href="/title/The+Economist">The Economist</a> with the following options:&hellip;The lady of situations (poetry)http://everything2.com/user/mad+girl%2527s+love+song/writeups/The+lady+of+situationsmad girl's love songhttp://everything2.com/user/mad girl's love song2015-03-31T03:45:15Z2015-03-31T03:45:15Z<blockquote>She was addicted to chaos, they said;
<br><a href="/title/Some+people+call+me+a+drama+queen">thrived on drama and mayhem</a>
<br>Only satisfied after creating
<br>some sort of <a href="/title/I+am+an+impediment.+I+am+here+to+get+in+your+way.">nearly insurmountable conflict</a> in her life,
<br>which she then had to painstakingly
<br>save herself from
<p>They said she <a href="/title/attention+whore">whored herself
<br>For an audience</a>, or for sport
<br>An actress in a play whose curtain never fell
<br>Truly, though, she only proving to the world
<br>That the only <a href="/title/What+defines+a+hero">hero she needed</a>
<br>she'd already found
<br></blockquote>Hotline Miami (review)http://everything2.com/user/lediablerouge/writeups/Hotline+Miamilediablerougehttp://everything2.com/user/lediablerouge2015-03-30T20:44:07Z2015-03-30T20:44:07Z<p>Game Title: Hotline Miami
<br>Developer: <a href="/title/Dennaton+Games">Dennaton Games</a>
<br>Publisher: <a href="/title/Devolver+Digital">Devolver Digital</a>
<br>Year of Release: <a href="/title/2012">2012</a></p>
<p>What can be said about Hotline Miami that has not already been said? That it is tightly designed, that it is a commentary on violence, that it is self aware without being self-conscious? Maybe that it is a game that has to be played to be understood in context, built out of pure aggressive fantasy that shoots you full of adrenaline with every playthrough? I think that all of these things have been said already but with little in the way of explanation for you, the uninitiated. So I will try.</p>
<p>Hotline Miami is set in a fictionally stylized version of the 80s, full of <a href="/title/electric+hues">electric hues</a> and set to an <a href="/title/The+Hotline+Miami+OST">exceedingly hip and synth heavy soundtrack</a>. It takes place of course in Miami, which is apparently completely infested with the <a href="/title/russian+mafia">Russian Mob</a>. You play an emotionally distressed loner, never named in the game but referred to by most players as&hellip;Nothing (thing)http://everything2.com/user/avalyn/writeups/Nothingavalynhttp://everything2.com/user/avalyn2015-03-30T19:08:09Z2015-03-30T19:08:09Z<p align="justify"><b><i>Nothing</i></b> is a <a href="/title/shoegaze">shoegaze</a>/<a href="/title/noise+rock">noise rock</a> band from <a href="/title/Philadelphia%252C+Pennsylvania">Philadelphia</a> that formed in 2011. It rose from the ashes of the <a href="/title/hardcore+punk">hardcore punk</a> band <a href="/title/Horror+Show">Horror Show</a>, some years after Horror Show broke up. Going from hardcore punk to shoegaze seems weird, I admit, but a lot of new shoegaze bands (or "<a href="/title/newgaze">newgaze</a>", if you prefer) have come from a large background of disparate genres. Nothing's frontman, guitarist/vocalist <a href="/title/Domenic+Palermo">Domenic Palermo</a>, still carries some hardcore punk <a href="/title/street+cred">cred</a> to this day: he served a few years in <a href="/title/what+prison+is+like">prison</a> after stabbing a man in a bar brawl. He was charged with <a href="/title/aggravated+assault">aggravated assault</a> and <a href="/title/attempted+murder">attempted murder</a>. If all that doesn't scream "HARDCORE PUNK!" then I'm not sure what does.</p>
<p align="justify">A few years passed and the novelty of the hardcore scene faded away, replaced by music inspired by the original shoegaze movement from the early 1990s while retaining some of the punk/metal sensibilities drawn from&hellip;The Buffalo Creek Disaster (essay)http://everything2.com/user/NFM/writeups/The+Buffalo+Creek+DisasterNFMhttp://everything2.com/user/NFM2015-03-30T07:17:49Z2015-03-30T07:17:49Z<p>The <a href="/title/Buffalo+Creek+disaster">Buffalo Creek disaster</a> occurred on February 26,
1972, when a <a href="/title/Pittston">Pittston</a> coal mining <a href="/title/slurry">slurry</a> impoundment collapsed. The collapse of
the <a href="/title/dam">dam</a> unleashed 500 000 <a href="/title/cubic+meters">cubic meters</a> of waste water upon 16 hamlets in the
valley below, in <a href="/title/Logan+County%252C+West+Virginia">Logan County, West Virginia</a>. Out of a population of 5000 people,
125 lost their lives, 1121 were injured and 507 homes were destroyed. This is an
essay on the book written by <a href="/title/Gerald+M.+Stern">Gerald M. Stern</a> who represented the victims in what
is now a <a href="/title/landmark">landmark</a> <a href="/title/class+action">class action</a> case.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>As indicated by Mr. Stern, West Virginia State <a href="/title/law">law</a> prescribes: “In cases where the defendant’s conduct is more than merely
careless or <a href="/title/negligent">negligent</a>; where the conduct is willful, or wanton, or reckless,
the <a href="/title/plaintiff">plaintiff</a> can recover not only “<a href="/title/compensatory+damages">compensatory damages</a>” to pay him back for
his own <a href="/title/loss">loss</a>, but also “punitive damages” “. This notion was a <a href="/title/key">key</a> principle in
the 1972 class action case, which pitted the Buffalo Creek survivors against
the <a href="/title/Pittston+Group">Pittston Group</a>.&hellip;Network (fiction)http://everything2.com/user/Skinflint101/writeups/NetworkSkinflint101http://everything2.com/user/Skinflint1012015-03-30T02:09:13Z2015-03-30T02:09:13Z<p>"Hey, Les, what's up?"</p>
<p>"There you are -- thought you got lost."</p>
<p>"No, that avenue to the southside was closed for Harbor Spring 10K <a href="/title/In+the+long+run%252C+we%2527re+all+dead">Run</a>, and I couldn't get across for awhile. Garlic Man was probably running in it. I know the Passage well from spending more than a couple of hours here."</p>
<p>"Yeah, tell me about the time you lost your boots on that bet! OK, rack 'em up. Let me get us a pitcher."</p>
<p align="center">*</p>
<p align="left">"What have I got -- low balls?" said Les returning to the table, and continuing, "when I first arrived and was standing at the bar to order, that old guy was going on about how he could've waited 'till Thursday and sold the Stock for even more, but you never know on these big <a href="/title/momentum">momentum</a> 'gaps' he called them ... the stock could easily give back a 20% drop the next morning, and he took his money while he could. I wonder how much he did make on that trade."</p>
<p>"This town is full of these widowers and&hellip;Gamma World (thing)http://everything2.com/user/TheAnglican/writeups/Gamma+WorldTheAnglicanhttp://everything2.com/user/TheAnglican2015-03-29T23:12:40Z2015-03-29T23:12:40Z<p>Gamma World also suffered by it not being that clear what the world was supposed to be.</p>
<p>I remember finding this in a half price/used bookstore, a dented box with sub-par graphics on the front side, with "Gamma World" written in very crude, "Shatter" font - that made the <a href="/title/futuristic">futuristic</a> ideal of the game wonderfully and ironically <a href="/title/retro">retro</a>. The <a href="/title/dice">dice</a> were shoddy and crudely printed, and it is my understanding that the dice included with this set (a <a href="/title/TSR">TSR</a> game) was not of the same quality afforded to the far better selling <a href="/title/Dungeons+and+Dragons">Dungeons and Dragons</a>, as opposed to having been replaced with bad replacements.</p>
<p><a href="/title/Dungeons+and+Dragons">Dungeons and Dragons</a> was clearly meant to allow players to live out their fantasy lives as hobbits and elves from the <a href="/title/sword+and+sorcery">sword and sorcery</a> genre: though <a href="/title/Tolkein">Tolkein</a> is a huge hit these days, to my incredible surprise some research shows that this it not the first time the genre has hit it big in film. The late 1970s had quite a hippy/medieval vibe to it, "Frodo Lives" was a not-unheard of&hellip;March 29, 2015 (idea)http://everything2.com/user/RedOmega/writeups/March+29%252C+2015RedOmegahttp://everything2.com/user/RedOmega2015-03-29T22:59:03Z2015-03-29T22:59:03Z<p>Let it not be said that I don't have a sense of <a href="/title/self-deprecatory+humor">humor</a> about myself.</p>
<p>There once was a man from Nantucket
<br>Who saw a girl and thought he would fuck it
<br>He took her to bed
<br>And asked her for head
<br>So she slipped off her pants and said '<a href="/title/She+has+the+biggest+cock+of+any+girl+I+know">Suck it</a>'</p>voids are the most prominent feature of the large-scale structure of the universe (poetry)http://everything2.com/user/Bitriot/writeups/voids+are+the+most+prominent+feature+of+the+large-scale+structure+of+the+universeBitriothttp://everything2.com/user/Bitriot2015-03-29T16:20:30Z2015-03-29T16:20:30Z<p> </p>
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<p>Sister put her hand<br>on grandmother's chest,<br>whispered<br>did they stuff her bra</p>
<p>the flesh-colored <a href="/title/Organ+donation">donor</a> sticker on<br>her driver's license<br>(she's smiling in the <a href="/title/graven+image">photo</a>)</p>
<p>sister remembered it first</p>
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<p>Given enough time alone you can follow<br>the exploded universe backwards,<br>to <a href="/title/singularity">when</a> all fingertips, all molecules of<br>sky in <a href="/title/Spring+is+Beautiful">Spring</a> were in a space<br>the size of a bedroom, a <a href="/title/bury+me+where+your+ribs+meet">ribcage</a></p>
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<p>An object moving quickly enough <br>overtakes the <a href="/title/causal+horizon">causal horizon</a>, <br>from which its traces return<br>disordered, confounding <a href="/title/Isaac+Newton">Newton</a>,<br>unfathomable except through<br>abstraction.</p>
<p>I can only hope <a href="/title/How+children+love">my first gestures</a><br>given to you wildly<br>cross the same boundary,<br>with their&hellip;Nothing untoward (opinion)http://everything2.com/user/etouffee/writeups/Nothing+untowardetouffeehttp://everything2.com/user/etouffee2015-03-28T15:15:20Z2015-03-28T15:15:20Z<p> </p>
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<p>From AP news- March 26, 2015- Regarding the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525
- a German airliner that crashed on March 23, 2015, killing all of the passengers and crew- more than 150 lives. The co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, may have caused the plane to crash intentionally. </p>
<p><em>Lubitz joined Germanwings in September 2013, directly out of
flight school, and had flown 630 hours. Spohr said the airline had no indication
why he would have crashed the plane. </em><em>He underwent a regular security check on Jan. 27 and it
found nothing untoward, and previous security checks in 2008 and 2010 also
showed no issues, the local government in Duesseldorf said.</em></p>
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<p><a href="/title/rational+ignorance+effect">Ignorance is never bliss</a>. </p>
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<p>So, now we know, or think we know, why the plane crashed. The how, a probable cause. A tangible reason. </p>
<p><a href="/title/Does+it+keep+you+company+or+remind+you+you%2527re+alone%253F">Does it make any difference</a>&hellip;Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (thing)http://everything2.com/user/Dustyblue/writeups/Harry+Potter+and+the+Methods+of+RationalityDustybluehttp://everything2.com/user/Dustyblue2015-03-27T22:18:28Z2015-03-27T22:18:28Z<p>Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a <a href="/title/Harry+Potter+fan+fiction">Harry Potter fan fiction</a> - No! Wait! Don't leave! Just hear me out. Please. I swear this is worth your time.</p>
<p>Like I was typing, Methods of Rationality is a fan fiction written by popular <a href="http://lesswrong.com/">blogger</a> and <a href="/title/Artificial+Intelligence">AI</a> researcher <a href="/title/Eliezer+Yudkowsky">Eliezer Yudkowsky</a>. Ever the rebel against conventional wisdom, Yudkowsky chose fan fiction as a medium for telling stories.</p>
<p>Methods of Rationality appears to begin as a single point of divergence <a href="/title/what+if">what if</a> <a href="/title/fan+fiction">fic</a>. Harry's aunt Petunia married an Oxford Professor and Harry grew up in a supportive home that fostered a love of reading, science, and critical thinking. As the plot progresses other points of divergence show up but the setting and characters remain mostly unchanged.</p>
<p><h1>The Plot</h1></p>
<p>Very minor spoilers ahead</p>
<p>Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres's (adopted son of Petunia Evans-Verres and Michael Verres-Evans) life takes a drastic turn with&hellip;old keyboards and broken cell phones (thing)http://everything2.com/user/moeyz/writeups/old+keyboards+and+broken+cell+phonesmoeyzhttp://everything2.com/user/moeyz2015-03-27T17:56:30Z2015-03-27T17:56:30Z<p>Sometimes it's a good idea to look backwards and reflect on the good things that have happened, or that you've accomplished or overcome. To put the dead grass outside the windows and the dust inside the house in perspective. To stop the agony of brokenness or <a href="/title/She+felt+like+the+word+%2527shatter%2527">worrying about the inevitable future</a>. I cannot call it self pity, but rather accepting what is.</p>
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<br>This is easier said or written than done. As for myself, I lost about fifteen pounds, working out three to five times per week, approximately two hours each time, charting my progress since I joined the YMCA almost a year ago. <a href="/title/endorphin">Exercise</a> seems to lift my spirits as well as cope with daily stress.</p>
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<br>My husband is back to five days a week at The Adult Day Center. The cost is about $500 per month and I have no idea how it's not breaking our budget. He still calls it "work", as in it's his job. He no longer can tell what day of the week it is, nor if it's day or night, so he asks numerous&hellip;close (poetry)http://everything2.com/user/gate/writeups/closegatehttp://everything2.com/user/gate2015-03-27T16:54:14Z2015-03-27T16:54:14Z<strong>side by side</strong><br><br>tentative proximity<br>leap of abandon<br>heart racing contact<br>resurrected life<br>uninhibited passion<br>carefree elation<br><br><br><strong>almost</strong><br><br>curious interest<br>rush of excitement<br>uncertain approach<br>collapse of courage<br>hasty retreat<br>distant longing<br>wistful memories<br><br><br><strong>end</strong><br><br>crushing frustration<br>final embrace<br>confused goodbye<br>vanishing intimacy<br>sudden loneliness<br>empty nights<br>appeal to authority (thing)http://everything2.com/user/gate/writeups/appeal+to+authoritygatehttp://everything2.com/user/gate2015-03-27T16:40:22Z2015-03-27T16:40:22Z<p>In many cases, appeals to authority are a subset of <a href="/title/association+fallacy">association fallacy</a> (which surprisingly hasn't been noded yet). If a <a href="/title/celebrity">celebrity</a> is loved, one might try to get some of their positive reputation to rub off on the <a href="/title/endorsement">endorsement</a>s they make. If a <a href="/title/leader">leader</a> is respected, one might try get some of that respect to rub off on to statements they've made. If we take 999 statements from any source and can prove they are all true, it would still be a fallacy to assume the next statement will automatically be true.</p>
<p>One might expect appeals to authority to be more common in <a href="/title/authoritarian">authoritarian</a> societies. It must be right because X says it's right. If an authoritarian society regularly relies on appeals to authority in order to <a href="/title/justify">justify</a> their policies, then the population becomes conditioned to seeing and using appeals to authority in discussion and debate. Attaching a famous name to a <a href="/title/quotation">quotation</a> then makes that quotation more <a href="/title/credible">credible</a> than attaching a less famous name to the quotation. As a result, it may&hellip;A handful of dirt (poetry)http://everything2.com/user/FlavouredMilk/writeups/A+handful+of+dirtFlavouredMilkhttp://everything2.com/user/FlavouredMilk2015-03-27T12:12:52Z2015-03-27T12:12:52Z<p>We sat in rows,
<br><a href="/title/Dressed+in+black">Dressed in black</a> head to toe.
<br>We sang our songs,
<br>Angry and hurt by our <a href="/title/Lord">Lord</a>.
<br>We drove our cars,
<br>Down Cemetery paths.
<br>We took our place,
<br>Lifting the <a href="/title/caskets">caskets</a> weight.
<br>We marched in pain,
<br>Drenched and cold from the rain.
<br>We laid him down,
<br>Lowered the box to the ground.
<br>We said <a href="/title/Goodbye">Goodbye</a>,
<br>To a <a href="/title/dear+friend+of+mine">dear friend of mine</a>.</p>How to check if someone has been to the mall (idea)http://everything2.com/user/FlavouredMilk/writeups/How+to+check+if+someone+has+been+to+the+mallFlavouredMilkhttp://everything2.com/user/FlavouredMilk2015-03-27T10:46:51Z2015-03-27T10:46:51Z<p><a href="/title/It+was+late">It was late</a>, I was sitting on the recliner, drumming my fingers on the arm impatiently. The clocks ticks and tocks echoed hollowly across the room. The sinking in my stomach worsened.
<br>Then, <a href="/title/dancing+across+the+roof">dancing across the roof</a>, <a href="/title/sneaking+above+the+curtains">sneaking above the curtains</a> was the light from the wagon's headlights as it pulled into the <a href="/title/drive">drive</a>.
<br><a href="/title/I+readjusted+myself">I readjusted myself</a> and sat up in my chair, looking over towards the door.
<br>I could barely hear her steps as she slunk up the entry way. I knew that she felt bad and was hoping I was <a href="/title/sleeping">sleeping</a>, or in the <a href="/title/garage">garage</a>, or anything besides in the lounge room waiting.
<br><a href="/title/Her+keys+jingled+in+the+lock">Her keys jingled in the lock</a> and the door slowly creaked open.
<br>"Evening." I said, briskly.
<br>She paused, there was rustling, then she stepped through the door empty handed.
<br>"Hello <a href="/title/dear">dear</a>. How are you?" She returned.
<br>I sighed, looking her up and down, then sunk back in the chair and <a href="/title/turned+away+from+her">turned away from her</a>.
<br>"I don't recall ever buying you <em>that<em> <a href="/title/necklace">necklace</a>."
<br>There was no reply.
<br>"Also,</em></em>&hellip;I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Was Already Gone. (fiction)http://everything2.com/user/FlavouredMilk/writeups/I+Fell+In+Love+With+A+Girl+Who+Was+Already+Gone.FlavouredMilkhttp://everything2.com/user/FlavouredMilk2015-03-27T08:18:12Z2015-03-27T08:18:12Z<p>I knew <a href="/title/everything">everything</a> about you, <em>once</em>.
<br>You used to let me in all your <a href="/title/thoughts">thoughts</a> and <a href="/title/wonders">wonders</a> of the world.
<br>Things were <em>different</em> back then, we were <a href="/title/close">close</a>.
<br>But it's true, and you know it. At least, I think you do. You did, <em>once</em>.
<br>My life has lead me a <a href="/title/million+different+directions">million different directions</a> these last few years.
<br>And yours has lead you a <a href="/title/million+other">million other</a>.
<br>But I don't understand how you could change so <a href="/title/quickly">quickly</a>.
<br>I know I've changed, quite a lot. But <a href="/title/I+feel+better+for+it">I feel better for it</a>.
<br>I'm not so sure about you, though. You don't seem like <em>yourself</em>.
<br>You've grown <a href="/title/too+fast+and+too+bitter">too fast and too bitter</a>.
<br>What did life do to you after you left?
<br>Or <a href="/title/did+leaving+do+all+of+this">did leaving do all of this</a>?
<br>What I think I'm trying to get to is, <a href="/title/we+were+friends">we were friends</a>.
<br><a href="/title/We+were+too+young+to+be+anything+else">We were too young to be anything else</a>, dating wasn't <em>cool</em> yet.
<br>But I look back now, I think about who we were and who we wanted to be.
<br>And I realise, that once, <a href="/title/I+loved+you">I loved you</a>.
<br><a href="/title/We+were+close">We were close</a>.
<br>But now&hellip;March 27, 2015 (log)http://everything2.com/user/jessicaj/writeups/March+27%252C+2015jessicajhttp://everything2.com/user/jessicaj2015-03-27T01:18:14Z2015-03-27T01:18:14Z<p>Today I read something chilling. I was on Twitter when I came across a link to an article on narcissistic parenting that looked like it would be interesting. I clicked on it, read it, and sat back unable to do more than let what I had read sink in for a while. For a long time I've known that something was wrong with the people in my family, now I have some more names for us. I don't want to be a narcissistic parent anymore. I want to do something to erase the past, at forty I can't really blame my parents anymore so it's up to me to figure out how to be a better parent. Part of the problem with being a kid and turning into an adult is sometimes you don't recognize problems as problems. Back in February my mom came over to help us pack. We thought we were going to move and then changed our minds. I still don't know if that was a good idea or not. I think not, but whatever. At the time my mom packed up the books that we had in our living room. I wasn't there when she arrived and she made herself useful by&hellip;Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi (person)http://everything2.com/user/drownzsurf/writeups/Ayatollah+Hossein+Kazemeyni+Boroujerdidrownzsurfhttp://everything2.com/user/drownzsurf2015-03-26T21:49:02Z2015-03-26T21:49:02Z<h1>Iranian Muslim Champion of Separation of Religion and State</h1>
<h2>
Incarcerated in Evin Prison (Location of U.S./Iranian Pastor <a href="/title/Saeed+Abedini">Saeed Abedini</a>)
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<h3><a href="/title/Just+Like+My+Father">Like Father Like Son</a></h3>
<blockquote>
<blockquote><em>The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,<br>
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.</em> --<small><sub><a href="/title/Omar+Khayyam">Omar Khayyam</a></sub></small> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
<p>On that second day of August in 1958, Ayatollah
Seyed (or Sayyid) Mohammad Ali Kazemeini Boroujerdi, must have been very happy to have a son, Hossein Kazemeyni, (or Hosein Kazemaini) arrive in <a href="/title/Qom%252C+Iran">Qom, Iran</a>. (Or as the Persian calendar has it: Mordad 10th 1337) His family had long been prominent in the <a href="/title/Shiite">Shiite</a> religious community. </p>
<p>Fate in a very mortally dangerous way would eventually catch up to not only to the father, but also his son, because of his tolerant version of
<a href="/title/Twelver+Shi%2527a+Islam">Twelver Shi'a Islam</a>. He was one of those Islamic voices in Iran that preached for separation of the&hellip;ketchup (personal)http://everything2.com/user/Skinflint101/writeups/ketchupSkinflint101http://everything2.com/user/Skinflint1012015-03-26T17:36:58Z2015-03-26T17:36:58Z<p>Thank you, <a href="/title/Warren+Buffett">Warren Buffett</a> and Alex Behring. Thinking it through this P.M., your proposal to <a href="/title/merge">merge</a> <a href="/title/H.J.+Heinz+Company">Heinz</a> and <a href="/title/Kraft+Singles">Kraft</a> Food Group must have been months in letting the scene develop appropriately.</p>
<p>Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reduced its position in KFT (2013) in part due to concern over the ridiculous <a href="/title/spin-off">spin-off</a> of the exaggerated-margin snack foods component, including the recently acquired UK's Cadbury, to a new corporation Mendelez. Nonetheless, BRK owned 193,000 shares of KRFT on its most recent <a href="/title/Securities+and+Exchange+Commission">SEC</a> filing. I sold my shares of KFT in September, 2012, because I didn't understand the proposed spin-off.</p>
<p>Several years ago, Berkshire Hathaway had paired up with a Brazilian private equity group called 3G Capital via its New York managing partner, A. Behring, to buy the struggling Heinz ketchup producer and make it a privately-held corporation. Warren Buffett is a genius at this sort of <a href="/title/book+value">figuring</a> --&hellip;To mean that much to you. (poetry)http://everything2.com/user/lizardinlaw/writeups/To+mean+that+much+to+you.lizardinlawhttp://everything2.com/user/lizardinlaw2015-03-26T17:15:21Z2015-03-26T17:15:21Z<p>No, I have <a href="/title/know">known</a> all along
<br>that you prefer your <a href="/title/solitude">solitude</a></p>
<p>You vowed to be alone
<br>and yet I tempted you</p>
<p>When you were making that <a href="/title/vow">vow</a>
<br>I was formulating a prayer</p>
<p>To the <a href="/title/Beloved">Beloved</a>, to fall in <a href="/title/true+love">true love</a>
<br>and I wasn't sure <a href="/title/hope">I believed</a></p>
<p>anyhow. So I thought I might as well</p>
<p>I prayed and prayed, daily, <a href="/title/longing">longing</a></p>
<p>When you showed up, lightning struck</p>
<p>I thought <a href="/title/what+a+fool+I+am">what a fool I am</a>
<br>neglecting to <a href="/title/ask">ask</a> that I be loved too</p>
<p>
<br>And the Beloved sits in <a href="/title/heaven">heaven</a> and <a href="/title/hell">hell</a>
<br>laughing at us both</p>